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Speaker 2: eh your They're about to take on the Royals nine
Speaker 2: days away. Single digits, okay, sucking down at nine from
Speaker 2: the start of the regular season. Very exciting. Everybody's excited. Matt,
Speaker 2: You've been to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Speaker 1: I have was there last year calling an Alabama basketball game,
Speaker 1: and NATO's their head coach once again finds himself with
Speaker 1: players having issues off the court. Aiden Holloway, their superstar guard,
Speaker 1: arrested on felony drug charges.
Speaker 2: With Alabama basketball.
Speaker 1: Matt, Yeah, two pounds of weed, two pounds, two pounds
Speaker 1: of weeds.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of reefer. It's a lot of re for.
Speaker 1: Two pounds, said quote, we got standards in our program.
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Speaker 2: Got how well he be Like was he saying the
Speaker 2: weed wasn't good, like flattened out Mexi shank And that's
Speaker 2: why this was not high grade.
Speaker 1: California shit. This was not California's shake. In Alabama they
Speaker 1: be they'd be dying for California shake. This is some
Speaker 1: Mexi dirt weed. Looks like it came off of a bail,
Speaker 1: he said. We've got ways, We've held our guys accountable.
Speaker 1: Of course, much worse situation. Twenty twenty three, Alabama basketball
Speaker 1: player Darius Miles arrested in charge with capitol murder. And
Speaker 1: they did throw that guy back on the court and
Speaker 1: try to get away with a dude that was in
Speaker 1: the NBA for like three weeks before. Was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 2: That's his only crime though he's not a murderer.
Speaker 1: Or rolling around with two pounds a week.
Speaker 2: I want to know how good the weed is. If
Speaker 2: coach is talking about standards, it must be below the
Speaker 2: standard good week. The Lakers are on a roll. They're
Speaker 2: forty three and twenty five winners. Is six in a row.
Speaker 2: Where wires Matt happy? Why are the Horns being played?
Speaker 2: Tell you why? Because Lebron James ain't doing nothing. But
Speaker 2: they are sitting in the three seed in the West.
Speaker 2: They're one and a half games up at Houstone right
Speaker 2: now or the fourth seed. They beat him last night.
Speaker 2: They play Houston again tomorrow night. Last night, the Lakers
Speaker 2: did a great job shutting down Kevin Durant. The second
Speaker 2: half here isis they shut down the t SIPs thips.
Speaker 2: Here is the King himself wearing his bejeweled crown on
Speaker 2: his wise head discussing shutting down Durant and just being
Speaker 2: awesome different looks about the game.
Speaker 4: He's one of the greatest players we've ever seen play,
Speaker 4: I mean obviously, so she's got to try to show
Speaker 4: him different looks, trying to keep him off balanced. And
Speaker 4: when he shoes hope he missed, you don't miss me.
Speaker 4: So I thought we did a good job of having
Speaker 4: a game plan, but also just switching up our pitches.
Speaker 4: You can't show switch up great like that. Too many
Speaker 4: are the same coverages throughout the whole game. He'd get
Speaker 4: a feel for, so Shood a good job of just
Speaker 4: kind of switching up to pitches.
Speaker 1: See the march. It couldn't be anything else. Switch the pitch.
Speaker 1: That's what you got to do on the court with
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. I'm switch pitch.
Speaker 2: Switch the looks.
Speaker 1: Can't just be throwing a heat he can't no gas
Speaker 1: right down the middle he runs on the whole game.
Speaker 2: I'll pick you apart. No switch pitch. What about those clips, Matt,
Speaker 2: they're back to five hundred, they are They lost to
Speaker 2: the Spurs last night without Kawhi Leonard he is day
Speaker 2: to day now.
Speaker 1: You said you were waiting for the other shoot to
Speaker 1: drop when it came to injury that you would not
Speaker 1: project Kawhi perhaps making it through the remainder of this.
Speaker 2: You really went out on a limb there. No one
Speaker 2: else went with me. No, you know, everybody's like no, No,
Speaker 2: I really like what I'm seeing from Kawhi. They playing
Speaker 2: a great year for him to be into it.
Speaker 1: He will, however, join the team on this upcoming three
Speaker 1: game road. I want to be on a back to
Speaker 1: back Tomorrow and Thursday in New Orleans, same team, much
Speaker 1: like the Lakers are dealing with in Houston right now
Speaker 1: against the Rockets. Clippers holding onto the eight seed, one
Speaker 1: game up on Golden State, one and a half games
Speaker 1: up on the Blazers, who are currently the ten seed.
Speaker 1: They are not in any danger of slipping out of
Speaker 1: the playing tournament. It's just a question of which slot
Speaker 1: they find themselves in when the season ends.
Speaker 2: Well, one person was clamoring to get the league cut
Speaker 2: down to size, but now the NBHAVE owners are getting
Speaker 2: ready to vote on expanding and adding the Las Vegas
Speaker 2: and Seattle SuperSonics, SuperSonics and the Lebron Las Vegasons.
Speaker 1: You know, damn well, he is going you want to
Speaker 1: own the Las Vegas whatever the hell they're going to
Speaker 1: be called. Lebron James is going to be a part.
Speaker 2: Owner with you, the Las Vegas Kings.
Speaker 1: And if you wanna, if you want to sign up
Speaker 1: for that Las Vegas Lebron's the.
Speaker 2: L snatch it from Sacramento. It's just gonna be the
Speaker 2: Las Vegas King. How about uh, Sacramento is gonna get
Speaker 2: the Sacramento cow Turns, which people have been looking to
Speaker 2: name them for many years.
Speaker 1: Just move the smooth some teams, move the hornets.
Speaker 2: Hey, Charlotte can't have a team.
Speaker 1: Just move some teams there. What about Memphis with a grindhouse?
Speaker 1: It's terrible people's college towns. People in Charlotte want to
Speaker 1: watch North Carolina or Duke basketball. Memphis wants to watch
Speaker 1: Memphis State. They don't give a damn about Ja Morantley Grislies.
Speaker 1: Just move those teams instead of adding more.
Speaker 2: I mean that feels like a real gut punch to
Speaker 2: those great parts of the country.
Speaker 1: Indeed it does.
Speaker 2: The Edmonton Oilers will be without their superstar forward Leon
Speaker 2: dry Sidle for the remainder of the regular season. Why
Speaker 2: are we telling you this?
Speaker 3: Why Are you so Pissyleon? Why are you so pissy?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just answering your guy.
Speaker 2: You are whatever.
Speaker 1: I ask you a question, I gave you an answer,
Speaker 1: not very good ones.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: It's exactly right. No dry cidle.
Speaker 2: Why are you so pissy?
Speaker 3: Leon?
Speaker 1: Are you so pissy?
Speaker 2: He might go back if they make the playoffs, but
Speaker 2: their playoff chances were a bit wobbly as they're at
Speaker 2: the third place in the Pacific Division, just four points
Speaker 2: ahead of the LA Kings. Lebron also wants that name
Speaker 2: from them, the first team below the playoff cut line.
Speaker 2: Now they'll have to hold off the Kings without dry
Speaker 2: title over the last fourteen games, and he is very
Speaker 2: pissy about home. We'll see Jack.
Speaker 3: So pissy?
Speaker 1: Leon? Why are you.
Speaker 2: Well? Maybe because you're Canadian? Are a German and your
Speaker 2: Germans didn't even get as close as the Canadians got
Speaker 2: and they all lost to Jack Hughes, who wants the
Speaker 2: Hockey Hall of Fame to give him the puck from
Speaker 2: his gold medal winning overtime goal from Team USA in
Speaker 2: the Milan Courtina Olympics, which is currently on display in Toronto.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get it like. That's bs that the
Speaker 2: Hockey Hall of Fame has it. In my opinion, why
Speaker 2: would they have that, Puck Hughes told ESPN hit an
Speaker 2: exclusive interview on.
Speaker 1: Tuesday, Because it's not the NHA Hall of Fame, it's
Speaker 1: the Hockey Hall of Fame. By Puck, the first time
Speaker 1: the US won gold since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: More quote from Hughes, let me have it, let me.
Speaker 1: Hot up, Jack, You'll always have the memory. Huh.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with some reaction on m I
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Speaker 2: new and once Reeves and Luca got together that things
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Speaker 3: How are you all good? Man? All good? On a
Speaker 3: special Tuesday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you both.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for doing it early because of the Clippers schedule
Speaker 2: and then we got to go to Montabello. But that's
Speaker 2: not your problem, James, and you don't have any problems.
Speaker 2: The Lakers are streaking right now. What is it about
Speaker 2: Luca and Austin Reeves playing together in the way that
Speaker 2: they do that makes them so difficult for very good
Speaker 2: NBA teams or anybody to guard?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, like I hate saying the things that
Speaker 3: always sound like excuses, but you know the fact that
Speaker 3: they finally got everybody like healthy and together and play
Speaker 3: together for a while a few games, and I think
Speaker 3: the coaching staff was able to figure out how to
Speaker 3: deal with the trio. Okay, you look at Lebron's role
Speaker 3: now it's more off ball. I think he's enjoying it,
Speaker 3: and I think he realizes that he can be most
Speaker 3: productive in that role. And he allows Austin Reeves to
Speaker 3: handle the ball just as much as Luca. To me,
Speaker 3: they you know, Luca obviously is you know, super talented,
Speaker 3: but they both are very efficient. And I think having
Speaker 3: him on the floor together sometimes with and without Lebron,
Speaker 3: and allowing Austin to flourish with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 3: He gets to the free throw line, he didn't look
Speaker 3: to do the same thing. They get to the line,
Speaker 3: they draw files, they both at shoot the three. They're
Speaker 3: very spontaneous, and when that happens, I think eight and really,
Speaker 3: you know, Marcus Smart, you know, he reminds me of
Speaker 3: Michael Cooper so much. He's just a you know, he
Speaker 3: sticks his nose in there. He's got Lebron diving on
Speaker 3: the floor. You know, Marcus Smart came in here diving
Speaker 3: on the floor early in the season. Now he's got
Speaker 3: forty one year old guy. So I think they're starting
Speaker 3: to like get more synergy than they've ever had. We've
Speaker 3: seen spurts of it. It's easy to see the talent
Speaker 3: when you got Luke out there, you know, killing it
Speaker 3: from three and do what he does. But then when
Speaker 3: you bring in the consistency of like I thought Jake
Speaker 3: Loravia had a good game last night. You know, I
Speaker 3: think when they start to make that more consistent on
Speaker 3: the defensive end. They've always had the offense, but now
Speaker 3: when you throw in the defense and you know, the
Speaker 3: collective effort, it's nice to see. I hope they can
Speaker 3: sustain it.
Speaker 1: On the six game win streak, you've seen DeAndre Aiden's
Speaker 1: minutes go up, played almost thirty last night, thirty against
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, nearly forty against the Bulls, you know, and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of conversation about him not accepting
Speaker 1: his role. You heard what he said. You know that
Speaker 1: that kind of took off in a viral moment about
Speaker 1: him not being Clint Capella just kind of where where
Speaker 1: you at with aighton How responsible is he on this
Speaker 1: six game you know win streak, these nine of their
Speaker 1: last ten, and do you feel like he's done a
Speaker 1: better job of kind of filling in where he's supposed
Speaker 1: to fill in.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think Clint Capella had the best response.
Speaker 3: You know. Clint Copella said, hey, man, you got you know,
Speaker 3: three guys that can ball. Just go out and just
Speaker 3: go out and ball with him, you know. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, if he does that, I do think that
Speaker 3: they're starting to include him early. I think some guys
Speaker 3: you have to like initiate and get them the ball,
Speaker 3: whether that's lob or something off of pick and roll.
Speaker 3: His defense I thought was amazing. Then once he gets
Speaker 3: some few touches, they're active, they get involved. I think
Speaker 3: Marcus Smart started this about a month ago. He intentionally
Speaker 3: I remember one game throwing eight in the ball to
Speaker 3: get him involved. So uh lately, I like his effort.
Speaker 3: I like his efficiency. He's got nice you know, and
Speaker 3: when you get him the ball in the paint, he's
Speaker 3: very efficient with the little floaters and sometimes he gets
Speaker 3: a dunk and can hit the eight footer, but he
Speaker 3: collapses the defense a little bit and he's a willing
Speaker 3: passer out of that. So uh, that's when Luke Canard
Speaker 3: gets an open three or somebody gets in, you know. Uh,
Speaker 3: Marcus smart might get a wide open three. Uh, so
Speaker 3: they need to inclue when you got a big number
Speaker 3: one draft pick for a reason. You know, he hasn't dominated, Uh,
Speaker 3: but he's he still has talent and he's still young.
Speaker 3: And HOPEU, well, he'll he'll find it. You know, get
Speaker 3: a little bit of Sequille O'Neill in it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, the great James Worthy, we
Speaker 2: could all use a little bit of Shaquille O'Neill and us.
Speaker 3: Money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take some of that money. Is that Papa John's money, James? Uh?
Speaker 2: Last night the Lakers were like double blitzing Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: late in the game when he had the ball. Now
Speaker 2: did they do that to Nikola Djokis last year? And
Speaker 2: is that something that JJ Reddick seems to do a
Speaker 2: lot or just when it gets to be toward the
Speaker 2: playoffs and in the playoffs, because it was effective last night,
Speaker 2: kind of stifling Kevin Durant late.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you know, I think without San Goon, you
Speaker 3: know that that was one advantage that the Lakers had.
Speaker 3: You know, he was out last night and he's kind
Speaker 3: of like he kind of he's kind of like a
Speaker 3: Yokic center. He can handle the ball. He does do
Speaker 3: a lot of handoffs. So I think with with with
Speaker 3: him out and not really have and a really a
Speaker 3: really breakdown primary guard, they were able to take some
Speaker 3: of Kevin Durant's comfort away. He liked to handle the
Speaker 3: ball a lot to get to his spots. So by
Speaker 3: blitzing him, which by the way, they also do a
Speaker 3: lot with Luca. They try to get Luca out high
Speaker 3: with a blitz and get it out of his hands.
Speaker 3: Lucas a little bit more evasive, but I think that
Speaker 3: was good strategy, blitzing him, double teaming him, getting out
Speaker 3: of his hands, forcing the issue, which they were successful at,
Speaker 3: you know early, you know, early in the third second
Speaker 3: quarter they had a lot of offensive rebounds. But I
Speaker 3: think once they figured out the rotations, uh and a
Speaker 3: lot of part of the game they were they had
Speaker 3: much success with you know, closing down Durant's who's hard
Speaker 3: to do, by the way, it's very hard, but they
Speaker 3: did a good job of blitzing and collapsing James.
Speaker 1: We remember they had that stretch last year where they
Speaker 1: were one of the best defensive teams in the league,
Speaker 1: kind of right before that Luca trade. They were streaking
Speaker 1: on that side of the court. You mentioned it that
Speaker 1: on this win streak they're playing better defense. I mean
Speaker 1: last night, no segoon, but talking about holding them to
Speaker 1: twenty points below their season average kind of did the
Speaker 1: same thing with the Knicks as well, and that big win.
Speaker 1: Do you think this can be a good defensive team
Speaker 1: with their personnel if Lebron, Austin Reeves and Luca are
Speaker 1: out there? Is it? Is it possible? And how do
Speaker 1: they do that? Because they're probably going to need that
Speaker 1: to win a playoff series.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, you know that. You mentioned the Knicks. They
Speaker 3: almost had Minnesota on that one hundred. They scored a
Speaker 3: few points late in the fourth. But yeah, the Lakers
Speaker 3: have shown and clutch last four minutes, last five minutes,
Speaker 3: they've been pretty good. They Now when you add that
Speaker 3: for four to forty eight minutes, yeah, I think they
Speaker 3: have to have that. And I think it starts with
Speaker 3: you know, Marcus Smartt was Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: He's bought this mentality to these guys. It's tough, physical
Speaker 3: veribal and uh that's what you need. And I think
Speaker 3: you know when guys like Ayton who's a rem protector, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, uh Hayes is always pretty active, but then
Speaker 3: guys like Jake la Rabia, he don't. People don't realize
Speaker 3: he's a pretty tough defender. He's sneaky, he he gets
Speaker 3: offensive rebounds. He doesn't spectate. So when you start to
Speaker 3: bring in those type of uh, you know players on
Speaker 3: top of you know, Austin Reeves taking charges. Surprisingly, Luke
Speaker 3: is a better defensive player this year. Uh you know,
Speaker 3: it kind of reminds me of magic. You know, he's
Speaker 3: a good team defender, knows the other team's offense and
Speaker 3: knows how to step in and get steals. Every now
Speaker 3: and then. He's getting back on you know, getting back
Speaker 3: on defense because you know, he can't complain too much
Speaker 3: to the referees because he has that he only has
Speaker 3: that one more technical so now he can't complain. He's
Speaker 3: getting he's getting back on defense quicker. But I just
Speaker 3: think that they know defense is going to win defense.
Speaker 3: They they do need to do a better job once
Speaker 3: they play twenty four seconds of good defense of securing
Speaker 3: that rebound. They give up too many offensive rebounds. They
Speaker 3: did against Boston, they did last night. I kind of
Speaker 3: on one possession with team got like four extra rebounds
Speaker 3: and that just's demoralizing when that happens. So those are
Speaker 3: less shot attempts you're getting up and they need to
Speaker 3: they need to work on that a little bit.
Speaker 2: The great James Worthy, our hero. Where do you think
Speaker 2: this momentum can take them? James? I mean, they're a
Speaker 2: lot of fun to watch and they have some great players.
Speaker 2: How far do you think they can go leading into
Speaker 2: the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Here? You want home corner advantage in the first round.
Speaker 3: I think you know right now, I think they're still
Speaker 3: in third, I believe, and they have secured I know
Speaker 3: they secured a tiebreaker with Denver, and so I think
Speaker 3: the Suns are still floating around. Yeah, you wan home
Speaker 3: court advantage and then you know, once you can secure
Speaker 3: that in the playoffs. You know kind of began in
Speaker 3: the second round, but you do want to kind of
Speaker 3: stand around third and see if you could secure home
Speaker 3: court advantage and go from there and continue to get
Speaker 3: better on the defensive vand particularly as you get deeper
Speaker 3: into the into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Real quick, James, how worried are you? Six v eleven
Speaker 1: North Carolina v CU NO, Caleb Wilson VCU rafteen of seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's like the number one upset that everyone's picking for
Speaker 1: the tournament. How are you feeling?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I keep it real. I want my car
Speaker 3: here and I want to be pulling form without Caleb.
Speaker 3: It's going to be tough in that bracket. That's a
Speaker 3: tough bracket there in. But I'm pulling for them. You know.
Speaker 3: I always say, you know, we can upset somebody. That's
Speaker 3: just our tradition. But it's it's it's it's not you know,
Speaker 3: they're not favored. You know, if I had to really
Speaker 3: like buckle down and say, Okay, I don't know if
Speaker 3: they can get through this, but on the tar heel, well.
Speaker 1: Good luck to the heels.
Speaker 2: That's right, you got it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, James. When we return one last segment, we'll
Speaker 1: get your dead or a live guy birthday today. Then
Speaker 1: we'll pass it off to David Vassay. He's got Dodger
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Speaker 2: And we're not sure if we're gonna get on tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we will put together some.
Speaker 1: Kind of podcast on for like two and a half
Speaker 1: hours tomorrow. I promise you, after the debacle that was yesterday, tomorrow's.
Speaker 2: Game it's gonna be an hour long.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's going to be a spring training record, like
Speaker 1: one hour and three minute contest. One side strikes out
Speaker 1: twenty six, the other as a single home run.
Speaker 2: We'll be ready. That's tomorrow, but there will be a
Speaker 2: show two to four Thursday, and that's in Montebello at
Speaker 2: the Bjay's Restaurant.
Speaker 1: In Brewja right off the sixty. Our first appearance at
Speaker 1: a Montabello Bjay's restaurant to Matt never been.
Speaker 2: I mean it's technically a gateway city, but Montabello is
Speaker 2: right next. I mean in Manabello is sure high, Montabello High.
Speaker 2: I mean we're talking east side. It's a real Petro said,
Speaker 2: money off the sixty. We haven't been this close to
Speaker 2: the sixties since we went to Brea. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, our investigative reporting on the Walnut Football Stadium took
Speaker 1: us to the sixty, remember, and we spent hours digging
Speaker 1: into that adventure. I believe we had the gentleman on
Speaker 1: that wanted to sponsor the walnutfl Stadium. We will be
Speaker 1: off to sixty. It will be a flex alert and
Speaker 1: we will have stacks of prizes, including Freeway Series tickets,
Speaker 1: sweet tickets, opening day tickets, not to mention all the
Speaker 1: great happy hour specials.
Speaker 2: While that's a nice play.
Speaker 1: So it's a walnut beautiful named after a glorious nut.
Speaker 1: We'll be there. Get your walnuts. The Hancock Park of
Speaker 1: the Kellogg Hill area. Is that what they said? I say, pizookies,
Speaker 1: handcrafted beers, pizzas, come see us. That will be Thursday tomorrow,
Speaker 1: could be a sliver of a show, could be three hours.
Speaker 1: Who's to say.
Speaker 2: That'd be a hell of a stratch started four might
Speaker 2: not be on at all, but I think we'll be
Speaker 2: on a little. Matt you got the dead guy birthday
Speaker 2: of the day to day, I do a Man's man
Speaker 2: manlier than Rye Cooter from yesterday considerably. Oh wow, I
Speaker 2: don't know Jim Bridger. He was a boy when he
Speaker 2: got started in the unforgiving Mountains of his westward travels.
Speaker 2: Born in Richmond, Virginia, father an innkeeper. They moved to
Speaker 2: Saint lou when he was thirteen and he was orphaned, illiterate,
Speaker 2: no formal education, apprenticed to a blacksmith, and it turns
Speaker 2: out he was freaking brilliant, spoke seven languages. At eighteen,
Speaker 2: he joined General William Henry Ashley's expedition to the Upper
Speaker 2: Missouri River. Jedediah Smith was part of that expedition and
Speaker 2: they would form the Mountain Inn.
Speaker 1: Now. At nineteen he was part of the group that included.
Speaker 2: Not the Highwayman, with Willie Nelson and.
Speaker 1: Jolan No different. He was part of a group that
Speaker 1: included Hugh Glass.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Bear attack and Bridger stayed with you in order to
Speaker 1: bury him when he finally passed.
Speaker 2: Somewhat even call it an assault.
Speaker 1: Some called it other things, a sexual assault. He was
Speaker 1: the only good guy in the group. The others wanted
Speaker 1: to kill Glass, take his pelts and move on. Bridger,
Speaker 1: a sensitive soul, left the canteen behind for Glass should
Speaker 1: he overcome his injuries, which he did, exacted revenge on
Speaker 1: the others that tried to kill him, But Bridger says
Speaker 1: it was mostly made up, that he had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it and has no idea ultimately what happened.
Speaker 1: But others say, well, some guys got scalped, another dude
Speaker 1: was castrated.
Speaker 2: A couple of guys got scalped, people killedsted.
Speaker 1: Maybe Bridger just didn't want to share any of the
Speaker 1: details of what happened out there at that time with Hughglass.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's why we talk about the sexual assault of
Speaker 2: the bear.
Speaker 3: Now, that is.
Speaker 1: Incredibly insensible.
Speaker 2: Somebody can get castrated, but they can't get sexually assaulted
Speaker 2: by the bear our man.
Speaker 1: Bridger sold enough pelts, saved enough money to pool it
Speaker 1: with some others and start the Rocky Mountain fur comp
Speaker 1: took off West Colorado, Idaho, Utah. Worked as a guide
Speaker 1: as a trapper. Eighteen twenty four. Bridger was the first
Speaker 1: Whitey to make it to the Great Salt Lake region,
Speaker 1: the first Whitey to explore Yellowstone springs and geysers. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bridger reported on Old Faithful before anyone knew what the
Speaker 1: hell it was. He is the only known person to
Speaker 1: take a raft on the rapids of the Big Horn
Speaker 1: and survive, a real freaking stud In eighteen forty three,
Speaker 1: he would establish Fort Bridger on the Blacks Fork of
Speaker 1: the Green River along the Oregon Trail. The US military
Speaker 1: would occupy it and never paid him a cent, even
Speaker 1: though it was his money. What is now Wyoming is
Speaker 1: where he made his place. He reportedly could assess any
Speaker 1: wagon trainer group their interests in travel and give them
Speaker 1: expert advice on where they were heading and how they
Speaker 1: were heading west and yes, ode and eighteen forty six,
Speaker 1: the Donner Party stopped at Fort Bridger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know it was on the way. A
Speaker 2: lot of people stopped there.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 1: He said, your shortcut's fine. Probably looking at forty miles,
Speaker 1: pretty flat road, you guys should be good. Forty miles
Speaker 1: was more like eighty miles and flat road.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Well he made a mistake with the Donner Party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that happened. But you know what. In eighteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine he explored Jackson Hole in Pierre's Hole. He
Speaker 1: was a real guy, was into holes. He was a
Speaker 1: military man. In sixty one, Bridge or a guide at
Speaker 1: Fort Laramie, served as a scout under Colonel Henry B.
Speaker 1: Carrington during Red Cloud's War, stationed at Fort phil Kearney
Speaker 1: during the Fetterman and the Wagon Box Fight. Discharged in
Speaker 1: sixty eight, and he would discover what became known as
Speaker 1: Bridger Pass had shortened the Oregon Trail by sixty one
Speaker 1: miles less disincreted it.
Speaker 2: Could have helped the Daughner party.
Speaker 1: With that it could, he blazed the Bridger Trail, an
Speaker 1: alternative route from Wyoming to the goldfields of Montana that
Speaker 1: avoided the dangerous at the time Bozeman Trail. Personal life
Speaker 1: married three Native American women. First two died, one from fever,
Speaker 1: the other during childbirth. Fort children, only one outlived him, sadly,
Speaker 1: his daughter of Virginia. His legacy. P I believe something
Speaker 1: you know, well, the Bridger rifle exactly right, that's.
Speaker 2: Given between Utah State and Cholera and Wyoming, Wyoming and
Speaker 2: Utah State play for the Bridger rifle. It's great to
Speaker 2: see it one and exchange hands and a guy you
Speaker 2: know in a full Uni and Bridger's rifle.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, a fifty caliber Hawk and rifle the trophy
Speaker 1: for the Bridger Battle. You tossed State taking off for
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve and Wyoming staying in the Mountain West
Speaker 1: rather unfortunate. I didn't mean to hit the horns there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It seems as though Bridger's Battle has come
Speaker 1: to a close.
Speaker 2: Never, it's never over. Not that it is all Lord,
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. Yes, beating out Rob Kardashian.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna beat out the sock Magneque?
Speaker 2: Is that Japanese lady fifty eight years old today to date?
Speaker 2: Airy Nita e r I n I t T a singer, actress, lyricist.
Speaker 2: In the eighties, she was a jpop pioneer as the
Speaker 2: fourth member of the all female girl group o Yonko Club.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2: It was an early one, nineteen eighty five. I know
Speaker 2: that you don't know what they are, and you just
Speaker 2: said that so you could be endear yourself to the
Speaker 2: Japanese audience, much like a certain broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Ho Toni.
Speaker 2: Eighty five, and she really transcended even that famous group
Speaker 2: a year later and started doing solo work. It was
Speaker 2: said that the second she showed up at Oyanko Club
Speaker 2: she was the face of Oyanko Club. I worked with
Speaker 2: Oyanko Club. I knew Oyanko Club and you sir r
Speaker 2: no O'yanko club Sadly, her father died of pneumonia during
Speaker 2: her solo debut. Her popularity waxed and waned in the
Speaker 2: fickle nineteen eighties in Japan. Just as Tiffany, she is
Speaker 2: married now as kids and a whole life actress, singer, essayist.
Speaker 2: She's done a great deal of morning radio in Japan. Oh.
Speaker 1: I wonder if she's ever won their version of a Marconi.
Speaker 2: She's like the vanilla kitten, more like no, No, she's
Speaker 2: bigger than the vanilla kit. All right. I do have
Speaker 2: five titles for you, Matt, five that I thought you
Speaker 2: might enjoy from a jpop which is a little different
Speaker 2: than K pop by sou So. A lot of the
Speaker 2: titles sometimes are in Japanese caricatures, and they cannot be
Speaker 2: The K pop titles are one hundred percent in English
Speaker 2: J pop. A little bit of a mix, that perfect mix.
Speaker 2: Why are you asking just to be a just to
Speaker 2: be an antagony? You know what?
Speaker 1: They're probably similar to find a bit way to be
Speaker 1: K pop jpop. It's all pop, right.
Speaker 2: No, Matt, what is from Japan? What is from Korea?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Although you could be more popular as in Japan as
Speaker 2: a Korean k pop band than a j popper, All right?
Speaker 2: First title, Don't make Me take off my Sailor.
Speaker 1: Suit some of the best titles we've heard in a while.
Speaker 2: Don't make Me take off my.
Speaker 1: Sailor truly one of the best titles we've heard in
Speaker 1: a long time. Snail Samba Dance, Terrier Dance like spelled
Speaker 1: like the Dog Dance, and then Terrier the Dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, there's five titles.
Speaker 1: Okay, got two left.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get out of this quarter clean. I
Speaker 2: know I'm not. Better be good teacher.
Speaker 1: Litt'll be good good the teacher certainly gets you in
Speaker 1: the game here, Better be good teacher.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you the horse and something Tim Kate's
Speaker 2: wife can never say again, Happy.
Speaker 1: Darts f I hate doing it. I hate doing it.
Speaker 1: I hate myself for doing big lost for me? Why
Speaker 1: the lost? Why the long face? I gave horns to everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm a shill.
Speaker 2: Trying to endear yourself to Japan like a certain broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Toney, guess what guys, I'm gonna be calling the games
Speaker 1: in Japan.
Speaker 2: You don't say, actually, that's how you pronounce.
Speaker 1: It, thank you. Actually, that's what I read.
Speaker 2: We might get on tomorrow, but there'll be something to
Speaker 2: put up there. There'll be some content. There'll be something kids,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you in Montabello on Thursday. There'll be
Speaker 2: a bitch Friday